Codeweek Europe is an annual celebration of creativity through code. During two weeks, it offers workshops and events all over Europe to introduce young people to coding and digital culture in a fun and engaging way.
Supported by the European Commission and the Ministries of Education of the European Union countries, Code Week Europe aims to give more visibility and resonance to programming and to show young people, adults as well as seniors that it is possible to realize their ideas thanks to computer code, and to demystify these skills in order to gather as many people as possible around the pleasure of learning together.
The initiative was launched in 2013 by the Youth Advisors to the Digital Agenda for Europe.
This new edition will take place from October 10 to 25, 2020.
In France, its organizers have set themselves the goal of mobilizing associations, popular education movements, media libraries, third places, schools, startups, and large companies, and of involving primary and secondary schools.
Nearly 100,000 participants in France in October 2019
In France, the 2019 edition of CodeWeek Europe held from October 5 to 20, 2019 had 593 events, 38% of which were organized in schools.It gathered 97,635 participants in France (49% of whom were women or girls)
At the European level, " while most activities introduced participants to computational reasoning and the basics of programming in a fun and interactive way, a growing number of activities focused on cutting-edge technologies such as robotics and artificial intelligence."
Two massive open online courses (CLOMs or MOOCs in English) held in 2019 hosted thousands of participants from 80 countries. Topics covered coding, computational reasoning, visual programming, robotics, and app development.
The next edition of the European Code Week will be held from October 10 to 25, 2020.
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